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LunarG Announces KosmicKrisp As Vulkan-On-Metal Mesa Driver


While there is already MoltenVK for Vulkan implemented over Apple's Metal graphics API, the graphics engineers at LunarG have announced KosmicKrisp as a Mesa-based driver implementing Vulkan over Metal.

While there is already MoltenVK for Vulkan implemented over Apple's Metal graphics API, the graphics engineers at LunarG have announced KosmicKrisp as a Mesa-based driver implementing Vulkan over Metal. The code still has to go through the review process but LunarG is hoping to upstream this driver to Mesa. An updated Vulkan macOS SDK will include both KosmicKrisp and then MoltenVK for legacy support.

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